Icelandic Chickens

[kathyinmo]

Have a safe trip! Drive carefully in that weather, ya know!

So glad the eggs are looking good! I hope you have a great hatch!

 

[okieinalaska]

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Have a safe trip, at least the roads were much dryer today. I get to make that trip right before Easter if all goes as planned. (My trip will be slightly shorter than yours coming from ER

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[Happy Chooks]

Mary, in your top picture only 4 and 5 (from the left) look like boys. The rest look like girls. So your roo/pullet ratio is improving!

Can't see the comb on #2 though - with the same coloring as #4, it may be a boy too.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I don't know whether to be happy or sad, but didn't get anything in the trap last night. We'll see what happens today.

 

[NotAFarm]

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I could do that!

YAY, Kathy is getting crests!!

Guess what I might be getting?............................an incubator!! Me, who said I didn't want one, that I'd use my broodies...........I've been caught up in the Icelandic vortex of "A FEW IS NOT ENOUGH!!" At our local Purina Poultry Workshop on Tuesday, a gentleman came up to me afterward and asked if I would be interested in a couple of incubators he had. I said possibably....what kind....he said 400 egg Sears Cabinets.

I came home and did some research and called him to ask some questions. He said he'd plug them in since he hadn't used them in 3 years. He called this morning and said he's had them on since Friday morning and they are holding temps, do I want to come take a look.........so apc (a BYCer who lives down the road a couple of miles from me) and I will be going today to look at them. apc was going to put my Easter Hatch eggs in her current bator but I may be putting my eggs in my own........but I may be a few hours behind everyone else...........who cares.......Icelandics are early hatchers anyway, right!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[The Sheriff]

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I could do that!

YAY, Kathy is getting crests!!

Guess what I might be getting?............................an incubator!! Me, who said I didn't want one, that I'd use my broodies...........I've been caught up in the Icelandic vortex of "A FEW IS NOT ENOUGH!!" At our local Purina Poultry Workshop on Tuesday, a gentleman came up to me afterward and asked if I would be interested in a couple of incubators he had. I said possibably....what kind....he said 400 egg Sears Cabinets.

I came home and did some research and called him to ask some questions. He said he'd plug them in since he hadn't used them in 3 years. He called this morning and said he's had them on since Friday morning and they are holding temps, do I want to come take a look.........so apc (a BYCer who lives down the road a couple of miles from me) and I will be going today to look at them. apc was going to put my Easter Hatch eggs in her current bator but I may be putting my eggs in my own........but I may be a few hours behind everyone else...........who cares.......Icelandics are early hatchers anyway, right!!!!!!!!!!!

And so it begins, the slippery slope into total hatching addiction.

Welcome, we've been waiting for you.

 

[The Sheriff]

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Put it out today in the area you saw the fox!

 

[Mahonri]

DS got some good pics of Vindur today... just waiting for him to give me the card. Some neighbors to the south were having troubles with coyotes and their pea fowl scattered. We have one of their gorgeous India Blue Cocks in our back yard so DS took pics of it also.

 

[The Sheriff]

Crested for Kathy. Here's the girl. She has a cute personality. Very nosey.

Good start on an awesome stink-eye.

Pretty girl.

Here's the hooligan. Always on his way to an emergency.

Closeup of colors. Nice crest. Think Rod Stewart.

 

[kathyinmo]

PERFECT, Mary! They look great! I can hardly wait!